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Boffins Mourn Passing Of The Slide Rule

Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Jerry Ross, along with about 200 other Purdue University alumni, have added their slide rules to a new exhibit at Purdue that testifies to the utility of these human-powered computational devices. The display, at the university’s Potter Engineering Center, includes some rules which were made in the 19th century. They range […]

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